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Chapter 407

Chapter 407

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Hey, the Yangzhou caravan is plunging right into the "sweet ice cellar" today! Dawa's yak team from Tibet ran into a once-in-a-century blizzard at the Snow Mountain pass and sent an urgent distress signal: "Our 'Green Bull Dark-Pattern' fabric has frozen into solid 'icicles'! The Chieftain says the yaks are chewing on the fabric like it's a popsicle!" Squatting by the stove, Huwa chuckled to himself as a piece of malt candy "clacked" into a pile of coarse silk. He wound a thread of "bursting chili candy" right into the yak patterns, then sprinkled them with highland barley flour. The fabric surface actually started steaming with a "hiss," startling a yak so badly it bounced away with a "moo," still chomping on a spicy sugar thread. "Huwa! Quickly bring over the 'mobile hearth'!" shouted Pei Hongxiu. Huwa immediately stuffed a handful of Sichuan peppercorns and honey into the loom, and the woven snow-mountain pattern transformed into a heating "sweet-and-spicy warm blanket." It felt like touching a cozy brazier, and a single lick tasted just like butter tea. Dawa wrapped himself in the fabric and marveled: "Brilliant! From now on, our herdsmen can 'wear a hearth while walking the snow mountains,' and it's even warmer than whole roasted sheep!" An Abacus Bead popped up an animation of a knock on the head: "Actually, it's graphene plus sugar-crystal heating technology!" Ali from the Western Regions caravan pulled his frozen Camel and sighed heavily: "Miss Xiao! Nights in the S…

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